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The Lay of the Land
Richard Ford
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Description for The Lay of the Land
Paperback. Good clean copy. Covers showing general shelf wear, remains a very good copy
'Frank Bascombe has earned himself a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape, but he has done so with a wry wit and a fin de siecle wisdom that is very much his own.' New York Times Book Review It is fall, 2000 - and in every household and bar across the USA the likely outcome of the hi-jacked Presidential election is being hotly debated. Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have ... Read more
'Frank Bascombe has earned himself a place beside Willy Loman and Harry Angstrom in our literary landscape, but he has done so with a wry wit and a fin de siecle wisdom that is very much his own.' New York Times Book Review It is fall, 2000 - and in every household and bar across the USA the likely outcome of the hi-jacked Presidential election is being hotly debated. Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747584322
SKU
KSG0029254
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Richard Ford
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944. He has published five novels and two previous collections of stories, including Sportswriter, Independence Day, Wildlife and most recently Multitude of Sins. Independence Day was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the first time the same book had won both prizes.
Reviews for The Lay of the Land
'A masterful writer.' Raymond Carver 'Ford's mature prose style, with its long, sinuous, lavishly articulate sentences, is now one of the glories of modern American writing.' Jonathan Raban 'The best novel out of America in many years...Simply a masterpiece.' John Banville on Independence Day 'A devastating chronicle of contemporary alienation.' New York Times on Sportswriter